Bitrate of 5400, will this turn out well

[Sifaga]

I used the bitrate calculator and came up with a bitrate of 5400

this is a photo slideshow with music, approx 145 mins

photos from a digital camera

what are the chances of this coming out fairly decent at 5400

im using tmpgenc CBR

its encoding now

DVD PAL (MPEG-2 720x576 25fps CBR 5400kbps)

[whitejremiah]

im not really too familiar with bitrates on slideshows, but i know thats what some (lower end) commercial dvd's use, and they probably use lower quality sources than that, too................it should end up looking pretty good, i'd guess...........let us know how it turns out.......my only gripe with the settings that you used (mind you, im a stickler for pure quality) i wouldve personally gone with 2 pass VBR...it would take a pretty long time to do if its 145 min though.....

[Barnabas]

Since you are not dealing with moving pictures, that's plenty of bitrate

[daamon]

Hi sifaga,

You may well even find that 5,400 is too high. I know it sounds weird, but I've encoded slideshows (originals were high quality JPEGs dropped into Premiere and frameserving to TMPGEnc Plus v2.5) and got macroblocks when encoding CBR at bitrates around that mark.

Try:

1) CBR at lower rates - i.e. experiment.

2) 2-pass VBR with 5,400 as the average, max 8,000 and min 500. I've had personal success with these settings and the process I described above.

Either way, there is a setting in TMPGEnc (under the Quantize tab I think) called "No half motion by pixel" - or words to that effect. Try ticking this.

Good luck..

[rkr1958]

You could also try CQ (versus CBR or VBR) and let TMPGEnc Plus set the bit rate. CQ is slightly slower than CBR but much faster than 2-pass VBR. For a slideshow I suspect CQ mode will give you good quality. Might be worth a try.

[Sifaga]

thankyou for the info all

Im trying out a few of the suggestions

[zoobie]

video slide shows make huge files out of stills because you're making tons of frames to show each still. if this is for the web, you 'd probably be better off using a javascript or php slideshow script.